Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-10
CHICAGO LETTER.
Variety OF EASTERN WINTER
AND SUMNER WEATHER.
The Colony for Nevada County
Prospects of Extensive Immigra-
tion-California Fruits.
CHICAGO, August 80, 1887.

CHICAGO, August 30, 1887.
EEs. REcoRD-UNIoN: 1t is some time
since wrote you letter for publication, and
one very cogent reason for this is the fact
that for about two months past the weather
has been so abominably hot that when my
regular work for the day was done could
not summon energy sufficient to write.
You remember that last winter | wrote of
constant cold waves and billiards, and this
summer has been succession of hot waves.
or rather hot wave came early in July
and stayed here for nearly two months.
In fact it seemed to be a consolidation of
hot waves.
There was little or no rain during that
period. Not only did humanity feel its
blighting influences, but all animated
nature and vegetation. Leaves on trees
were withered and dry, looking as though
blasted with frost; vegetables died or
withered in the ground; the potatoes were
almost baked; eggs shipped from interior
towns to commission merchants turned to
chickens in the cases in some instances.
and the corn crop was nearly total fail
ure. | simply recite these facts to show
the reason why so many people are COM
ing out to make homes in California this
fall and winter.
COLONY FOR PLACER COUNTY.
BY invitation of Mr. SommerviIle, of
the G. and A. r. R., in this city, | visited
the rooms of the California Colony Com
pany, of which he is prominent member
1t was on the 18th Of this month, in the
evening, and | found nearly one hundred
people present who desired to know some
thing about the county where the colony
had located its lands | found that the
lands selected were on the line of the Ne
vada City Narrow Gauge Railroad, not far
from where it crosses Bear river, and near
the old Ralston tract, now owned in part
by ex-Councilman White, of Oakland, Cal
| was up in Placer last summer, and
through the courtesy of Mr.. Kidder and
Mr.. Loughridge, rode over the narrow
gauge road on the engine and thus | had
an opportunity OF seeing the land advan-
tageously. told these people about the
place they intended going to, and although
/ could not do the subject entire Justice, |
think / gave them some idea of it,
The colony is Furnishing; there will be
one hundred families there in less than
three months. They will build large
hotel, school-house, church, stores, dwell
lings, ETC., and will go into the cultivation
of fruits extensively, and it will help
boom that locality
APPRECIATION OF VALUES.
Speaking of booms, think the reason
booms are created is simply because people
Of certain localities wake up to the fact
that heretofore they have not half appreci-
ated the advantages surrounding them.
Why the old sleepy heads AT Los Angeles
had to be awakened by some enterprising
Chicago, New York and Boston men, who
visited that country seeking health or rec
reation, and finding the climate equable,
and ascertaining that a seven-year-old or
ange tree bore fruit each year worth at
wholesale from So to $50, and that the
land was selling at about one-tenth its
value, considering that an acre of the land
had ample room for one hundred trees,
commenced buying largely and after a
while the land attained something near its
value. | have heard people curse Lucky
Baldwin for charging 5000 per acre for his
land, yet that is not high figure and
within three years people will pay 81 900
at 500 per acre is dearer than land in the
San Gabriel valley at $1,000.
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
viii have ITS boom as soon as peo-
pie find out its advantages. Your Sacra-
mento valley will TEEN with toiling peo-
pie in the near future. The great valley
of the San Joaquin will support millions
of people. The Minnesota Colony will
send hundreds out of the hyperborean re-
gions of Minnesota, Dakato and Montana
this fall, and thus escape 400 below zero
this winter
The new colony organization here to
settle in Kern county will have 100 or
more families in Kern county, about u
miles south of Tulare lake, before the 1st
ofJanuary, 1888, and in a new town they
will be voting for Blaine, a year from next
November, just the same as they could
here.
NOTES OF CHICAGO.
There are some queer sights in great
city like Chicago, which, by the way, al
ways has boom going on. | was riding
in street car the other day down Ran
dolph street, when my attention was called
10 sign which read, Don't go down town
to get robbed, drop in here"
There" said |, that fellow is honest,
anyway. He just says plainly that you
need not take the trouble to go down town
TO get robbed, as it can be done there Just
as we'll"
But the man who called my attention to
it said: you're off way off; he doesn't
mean that. He means that he will deal
squarely with you, and the other fellows
down town will rob you' "Ohr' said /,
softly, and the car rolled by and the driver
amused himself trying to see how far he
could make people run to get on the car
before he pulled up on the brakes.
And this reminds me of how the grip
men on the cable ears also amuse them
selves here. 1t is quite a rare thing to
have them oblige anyone if they can help
II. | have seen people signal for a car,
and the gripman glance at them in 4 stony
manner, and the car rolled by, leaving the
party on the street-crossing shaking his
fist vigorously at the vanishing car These
fellows hardly ever stop the car for man,
but do sometimes slack up a little so one
can jump on. If he slips and falls, the
driver laughs pleasantly and keeps on. In
fact, | have come to the conclusion that to
get along well in this city, if one has much
riding to do on cable car he. must or
should have shotgun to stop them with.
Our California fruit meets with much
favor'h here and finds ready sale The pro-
ducers need not fear an over-supplv, for
increased production will be met with an
increased demand, and people grow, in
crease and multiply faster than trees ever
can in California. The boom will increase
in that State until the maximum value of
land is reached, and that is still a long
way of. Yours, etc,
II. VI. VAN ARMAN.